Trousers-hanger.



M. H. GAZIER & A. P. DIKE'.

TROUSERS HANGER. APPLICATION IILED 151:0. 29, 1906.

977,594. Patented Dec. 6, 191 0.

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MARION l-I. CAZIER AND ALBYN I. DIKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TROUSERS-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1910.

Application filed December 29, 1906. Serial No. 350,009.

I '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARION I-l. OAZIER and AL-BYN P. DIKE, citizens of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in TrousersJ-Iangers, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to devices for suspending clothing when not in use and more particularly is an improvement upon the invention which is described in Patent N 0. 696,940 issued April 8th 1902, to Marion H. Cazier.

It is the object thereof to provide the clamping aws with a fabric covering which cannot be misplaced, which will provide secure bearing faces to hold the legs of suspended trousers, which will have no tendency to make sharp or deep creases therein, and which will protect a garment against the possibility of rust being communicated thereto by the corrosion of unprotected metallic jaws. The width of the principal jaws may be reduced, thus cheapening this portion of the construction, while the whole device is given a more pleasing and elegant appearance.

The principles of our invention are illustrated in the drawings in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of our improved trousers hanger, with the jaws locked together; Fig. 2 is a view in partial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the jaws being separated, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal section on the line 3 of Fig. 1.

Further describing our invention with reference to the drawings: 11 are spring clamping jaws attached to suspending members 2. The latter may be in the form of an inverted V-shaped spring, but which may be of any other pattern or construction.

3 is a locking link adapted to secure the jaws together and applicable to a suspending means of the character shown.

It will be noted that the clamping jaws l are arched on their inner faces and, as usually constructed, they are of metal adapted to bring spring pressure on the garments held by them. We place a slightly resilient or yielding lining on the inner faces of said jaws, preferably a substantial fabric or similar material, but to cause it to conform to the arches of the jaws and to hold it against vertical displacement some kind of stiffening must be provided. We prefer to use a strip of thin metal for this purpose, which may also be considerably wider than the jaws 1. The stiffened fabric thus forms an auxiliary clamping jaw and provides a broad bearing to clamp a garment, whereby the breadth of the outer jaws may be materially decreased, giving a more ornamental appearance to the device, as well as cheapening this feature of construction.

The separate members forming the stiffened lining may be constructed by covering stiffening strips'4c, preferably of thin metal somewhat longer than the jaws, with strips of suitable fabric 5. The same should be applied so that the covering of the faces is smooth and continuous, while the edges are turned to the back, where they may be secured by being cemented or by other means. The ends, comprising the metal, together with the fabric covering, should be turned backward forming a fold 6, which, when applied to the jaws, is given an additional turn 7, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby it is folded under and the double thickness turned to the back of the outside jaws. The ends of the roll thus formed, where they project above and below the outer jaws, should be pinched down at 8, thus providing pockets in which the ends of the outer jaws are seated, thereby firmly and securely fastening the lining thereto. These cored inner strips should also be given a slight angle at the points 9, whereby they will be made to conform to the arched outer jaws. In practice we prefer to make the stiffened lining in long continuous strips in which the coverings are cemented to the core and then to cut the long strips to suitable lengths for application as above described.

Having thus described the principles of our invention and illustrated the same by a practical example, we claim:

1. In a trousers hanger having metallic jaws; the combination therewith of a fabric lining, means for stiffening the said lining and giving it substantially the contour of the jaws, and means for securing said lining and stiffening means to the jaws.

2. In a trousers hanger having arched jaws; the combination therewith of a fabric lining therefor, means independent thereof to conform the fabric to the jaws, and means for securing the same thereto.

3. In a trousers hanger having metallic jaws; the combination therewith of a fabric lining, a metallic stiffening strip for the lining, and means for securing the said strip and lining to the jaws.

at. In a trousers hanger having metallic jaws; the combination therewith of a fabric covering for the inside thereof, a stifiening strip for said covering, and means for securing the strip to the hanger aws.

In a trousers hanger having arched jaws; the combination of a covering for the inside thereof, a stiffened core within the said covering, and means for securing the core and covering to the hanger jaws.

6. In a trousers hanger, the combination of arched metallic jaws, fabric garmentengaging facing pieces secured within the jaws, and metallic supporting strips for said facing pieces extended from end to end of said jaws, and secured between said facing pieces and the said jaws.

7. In a trousers hanger the combination of principal jaws, means for suspending the j same, auxiliary jaws wider than the prini cipal jaws adapted to clamp the fabric to be suspended, and means for securing the auxiliary jaws within the principal jawsf 8. In a trousers hanger the combination of principal jaws adapted to clamp the fabric to be suspended, means for suspending the same, auxiliary jaws of stiffened fabric wider than the principal jaws, and means for securing the auxiliary jaws within the principal jaws.

In witness whereof, we have lereunto set our hands this 11th day of December A. D.

witnesses.

MARION H. CAZIER. ALBYN P. DIKE.

Vitnesses C. K. CHAMBERLAIN,

A. S. PHILLIPS.

1906, in the presence of two subscribing 

